Thomas christy



Patented Mar. 26, 1889` nv VEA/rol? A fr0/Mfrs.

NrTED STATES l ATENT OEEICE.

THOMAS CHRISTY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

MEDICATED soucis SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 400,056, dated March 26, 1889. Application filed October 4, 1888. Serial No. 287,172. (No model.) Patented in England August 23, 1888, No. 12,137.

T0 all whom, it may concern.'

Beit known that I, THOMAS CHRISTY, a sublject ot' the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 25 Lime Street, London, England, have invented a new and useful improvement in medicated instruments or bougies for the local treatment of diseases of the urethra, uterus, prostate gland, and other parts of the human body, (for which invention I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. l2,l 37, bearing date August 23, l888,) ot which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide an effective form of medicated instrument or bougie for the local treatment of diseases of the urethra, uterus, prostate gland, and other parts of the human body. 5

The invention 'consists in a medicated instrument or bougie constructed and arranged as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar iigures ot" reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure l is an elevation of a medicated instrument or bougie constructed in accordance with this invention, and Fig. 2 is an elevation of the instrument shown in Fig. l before the medicated composition is applied.

The instrument is constructed ot' wire, the stem l consisting of a straight wire, 2, bent at one end to form a ring-handle, 3, and a wire, 4, extended and twisted about the straight wire 2, and carried beyond its end to form a wire frame, 5, bulging in the middle and tapering at the ends. Upon the latteris placed a quantity of medicated composition, G, forming a head, 7, bulging in the center and having tapering ends. ble the head 7 may be passed through a tortuous passage or sinus to the point to be treated, where the instrument is left a sufficient space of time for the medicine to have eit'ect.

Any s u itable medicament or medicated composition may be employed to form the bulging and tapering head. The wire stem may be left bare or coated with shellac or other suitable substance, or eloctroplatcd.

By making the stem iiexi- In diseases of the urethra, uterus, and other 5o ing ascertained the location of the diseased part by means of a spectroscope, the medi-l cated coating may be applied tothat part only, and, owing to the particular form of the head ot my improved bougie, the bulging head with tapering ends will properly tit the walls 6c of the diseased portions of the passage.

I am aware that bougies rigid and flexible, made of straight or spirally-bent wire, and coated with a medicated composition are old;

and I am also aware that abougie with an enlarged round head is old, as shown in United States Patent of P. F. Francke, June 8, 1886, No. 343,306, and that a bougie with a steel olive or head with ferrule screw-die is old, as shown in United States Patent of A. R. Foote, January 4, 1887, No. 355,308, and to such construction ot' bougies I lay no broad claim.

Having thus described my inventiomwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A medicated instrument or bougie constructed with a stem, l, consisting of a straight wire, 2, bent at one end to form a ringhan die, 3, and having a wire, 4, wound around the wire 2,'and at its end forming a frame, 8o

bulging in the middle and tapering at the ends, substantially as shown and described.

2. A medicated instrument or bougie constructed with astem, l, consisting of a straight wire, 2, bent at one end' to form a ring-han- 85 dle, 8, and having a wire, it, wound about the wire 2, and at its end forming a frame, 5, bulging in the middle and tapering at the ends, which is covered with a medicated composition, 6, forming a head, 7, bulging in the cen- 9: 

